That's what I'm saying _won't_ happen. The high property taxes as-is will stay high and previously protected properties will have their taxes shoot up. That is my prediction and nothing about the state of California, or the US broadly, suggests otherwise to me.

My money is on the latter. Nobody is getting a tax cut if Prop 13 is repealed. Everybody's taxes will just continue to go up.

Or do we think that property taxes would go up while other taxes stay put?

This feels like the argument at play when people criticize Prop 13. Not saying it’s good but California hasn’t ever cut taxes meaningfully and I’m not convinced raising property taxes would solve anything. California would still be expensive to live in.

There's a palpable desperation that makes this wave different from mobile or cloud. It's not about making things better so much as its about not being left behind.

I'm not sure of the reason for this shift. It has a lot of overlap with the grindset culture you see on Twitter where people caution against taking breaks because your (mostly imaginary) competition may catch up with you.

Most RFC committee debates ime devolve into firing squads in which the presenter needs to answer every question with pin-point accuracy and perfect context from the asker. Otherwise, they look unprepared and the RFC is negated.

This is allowed to happen because everybody is a theoretical co-equal in the process. Thus, everybody wants to have their say. You'd hope people would read ahead of time but there's always somebody who doesn't yet feels entitled to ask pre-emptive questions. It makes for very combative discussions.

The exception is when a double-skip manager stops that from happening and lets the presenter "make their case" and walk through the whole RFC.

That is an excellent way to put it!

It explains why it appeals to non-math people. They are (usually) better at these more verbal-based games ime.

It reminds me of the math "puzzles" on Twitter which go:

1 shoe + 1 shoe = 2

2 shoes + 2 shoes = 4

3 shoes + 2 shoes = ???

And the answer isn't 5 because a) we're not counting shoes and b) the shoe laces were different colors. There's nothing clever, it just teaches you to be hyper cynical and question every little detail which isn't relevant to either Math or the real world.

Academia has a problem with possibly fraudulent papers and grade inflation. It is inevitable that companies won't trust the papers and grades/degrees like they did in the past.

Nuclear war is not something to be lightly risked

†: everybody == a lot of people, just to be clear

My understanding is that if you delete your Facebook they will, in fact, completely delete it. That's post Cambridge Analytica of course.

Why get Google/YouTube's permission at all about this?

Am I going crazy or is this just bad luck?

Just to state the obvious: I don't like this man or approve of anything he does. Only impressed he's this successful at it. Definitely struck a particular chord.